Oracle Performance Tuning: Database Management Systems [With *]

Many of the tricks and approaches offered in here can enable you to perform some impressive rescuing of slow applications. Management tends to like this quite a bit. Having had this book from way back, there were many tips in there that were not available from the standard Oracle documentation such as making a query return unique records by using the rowid in the where clause. If you're in a database-centric development or DBA position, I wholeheartedly recommend this book.

I have been using a copy of this book for a couple of years now, and I have still kept it as my 'good tricks' bible since becoming being a certified Oracle dba. Ok, so not all the queries run first time as given, and the book is really about Oracle 7, but this is still the first reference book I turn to whenever another dba comes up with a 'I've tried everything to do this, but nothing works' type question. A very good book to read if you want to know how to make Oracle work for you.

This book has helped me quickly go from an beginning/intermediate level Oracle developer to an advanced developer. It has allowed me to quickly debug and correct real world performance problems under both Oracle 7.3 and Oracle 8.0. This was the forth Oracle performance related book I purchased and it has been ten times as helpful and insightful as the other three combined. This book is easy to understand and broken down in to very logic chapters. I can't say enough about this book. I would definitely add this to your collection!

If your measure of a truly useful technical guide is the amount of time it spends off the shelf and next to your keyboard, then this is a book you don't want to be without. It is filled with practical, real-world tips to tune your Oracle database. It covers everything from tuning your environment to tuning your queries--across all platforms! A must for developers, administrators, and users alike